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> > Seeing that Qt removes QtWebKit from their source-
>
> Actually they are not going to update it anymore, maybe except for security
> bugfixes. The source will remain there and should be able to keep building
> with Qt5.6+
I'm not entirely sure it will, unfortunately.
From [1]:
* We’d still remove the deprecated modules from our Qt 5.6 release
(maybe with the exception of Qt Script).
I also remember reading somewhere explicitely that it won't be
included in the qt-everywhere-opensource-... archive - sadly I can't
find the mail anymore.
I asked in IRC (#qt-labs on Freenode) to clarify this, and even there
it seems people aren't sure what will happen exactly ;)
<The-Compiler> Did I understand it correctly that the QtWebKit source won't
be part of the qt-everywhere-opensource tarball with Qt 5.6 anymore? Or will it
just be removed from binary builds?
<aholza> hehe no it still resists in the source folder
<The-Compiler> I'm pretty sure I read in some mail it doesn't, but I might
have misread then
<The-Compiler> [1] only talks about "removing" it
<The-Compiler> carewolf? ^
<carewolf> The-Compiler: don't know. I think it was mostly the binary
builds, but it could end up as separate tarball.
[1] http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2015-June/022004.html
> > and binary
> > distributions starting with Qt 5.6[1] and there's nobody stepping up
> > to package QtWebEngine for Debian so far, what are Debian's plans for
> > QtWebEngine after 5.6 has been released upstream?
>
> Not packaging it at all. See [lwn]. Properly packaging it in Debian means
> almost a fork, or in other words, a nightmare. Just consider that it bundles
> ffmped and most possibly a patched ffmpeg...
>
> [lwn] https://lwn.net/Articles/643423/
I still have some hope - I think Qt will still apply at least security
fixes for QtWebKit until Qt 6, which still should be a while away.
Maybe some miracle happens in that time ;)
> > If Debian were to drop QtWebKit when it's dropped upstream, that'll
> > mean there is no Qt web rendering engine in the Debian repos - also,
> > of course there are a lot of packages which need QtWebKit.
>
> We don't plan to drop it soon, but we might be forced at some point :(
>
> Yes, we know the situation sucks, but there is not much we can do about
> this :(
Yeah... I'm contributing to QtWebKit a bit[2] and I completely
understand they're lacking the manpower to maintain this beast in the
long run.
The series of patches they have on top of Chromium look a lot more
sane. But I see how having what's essentially a Chromium fork is
problematic :-/
[2]
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/q/project:qt/qtwebkit+owner:%22Florian+Bruhin+%253Cqt-project.org%2540the-compiler.org%253E%22,n,z
Florian
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